The government has approved a bill to revise the National University Corporation Law, which focuses on preventing the influence of the president on the national university president selection meeting.The president selection meeting will be given the function of checking the status of job execution after selection, and the role of stopping the runaway of the president will be entrusted.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the name of the president selection meeting will be changed to "President selection and inspection meeting".The directors of a corporation can join the committee if elected by the Education and Research Council, but the president cannot serve concurrently as a committee member.The same shall apply to the director of the inter-university research institute corporation.In the event of a problem that may meet the requirements for dismissal of the President or a case of suspected violation of laws and regulations, the President may be requested to report on the status of execution of duties.
At some national university corporations, the president was listed as a member of the committee, and the majority of the members were from the university, such as professors, and the strong influence of the president was seen at the president selection meeting.It seems that the aim is to clearly prevent such cases by amending the law, and to add an inspection function to the selection meeting to prevent the president's runaway.
At Hokkaido University, in 2020, the president at that time was dismissed due to intimidating words and deeds, and at Asahikawa Medical University, professors asked for the dismissal of the president in response to the dismissal of the hospital director. It occurs frequently.
